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Treaty of Paris 1763
States that France no longer has power in North America. -
Proclamation of 1763
Issurd to forbid settlements from the Appalachians Mountain Range and west of that. -
Stamp Act
A law saying you have to put a tax on every single sheet of paper. -
Declaratory Acts
In which the Stamp Acts were repealed. Gave King George 3rd the power to do or tax anything he wanted. -
Townshend Acts
June- July 1767
Designed to put taxes/customs duties on important items. Ex: Tea, Paper, Glass, Lead -
Boston Massacre
When British Army fires as the cause of a rock being thrown at them. It killed 5 male colonist and injured 6 others. -
Tea Act
In which colonist were only allowed to buy tea from the British East India Company. But they saw this as taxation without representation, because they weren't allowed to buy from anyone else, even though the British East Indian's Tea was cheaper. -
Boston Tea Party
Protest in which the Sons of Liberty dressed up as Indians and dump 342 cases worth of tea into the sea. -
Intolerable Acts
A set of laws forced upon colonist in Massachusetts in order to punish them for throwing 342 chests of tea into the Boston Habor -
First Continetal Congress
In which 12 delegates of the colonies(except for Georgia) met to organize resistance against the Coercive Acts. -
Midnight Ride
When Cheswell, Revere, and Dawes where sent to tell the colonist that the British were coming. "The Britsh Are Coming!The British Are Coming!" -
Lexington and Concord
The 1st battle of the American Revolution. -
Scond Continetal Congress
In which delegates from the colonies once again met up and wrote The Declaration of Independence
